different between ahimsa vs nirvana

English

Alternative forms

• ahinsa

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (ahi?s?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??h?ms??/

Noun

ahimsa (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism) A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them. [from 19th c.]
   • 2006, Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation, Atlantic Books 2007, p. 79:

     Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age.

   • 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin 2017, p. 9:

     This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice.

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

ahimsa m or f (in variation) (uncountable)

1. ahimsa (doctrine of non-violence in Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nirv??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n???v??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n???v?n?/, /n??v?n?/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /n??????n(?)/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

nirvana (countable and uncountable, plural nirvanas)

1. (Buddhism) Complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
2. (non-Buddhist, colloquial) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.

Derived terms

• nerdvana
• nirvanic

Translations

Further reading

• nirvana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Anirvan, navarin

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nir-v??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Noun

nirvana

1. nirvana

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nir-v??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Noun

nirvana m (plural nirvana)

1. nirvana

Related terms

• nirvanico

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nir-v??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??na

Noun

nirvana m (plural nirvanas)

1. (Buddhism) nirvana (complete cessation of suffering)

Romanian

Etymology

From French nirvana.

Noun

nirvana f (uncountable)

1. nirvana

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nir-v??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nir??na/
• Hyphenation: nir?va?na

Noun

nirvàna f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. nirvana

Declension

References

• “nirvana” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??????? (nir-v??a, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from ???? (nis, “out”) + ?? (v?, “to blow”).

Noun

nirvana m (plural nirvanas)

1. nirvana